CCTV's version of "The Swordsman" definitely spent a lot of money. For example, in the scene of crossing the cliff, the entire cave is nine meters high, with various jagged rocks on the top, vines spiraling down, and rails and hooks in the middle. A wire rope is hung on it, making it easy for actors to fly around with wires.
During the actual filming, dry ice was released underneath to create a fairy-like scene.
"Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding..."
At this time, we were filming a scene where Linghu Chong and his junior sister were practicing Chongling swordsmanship in Siguo Cliff. Li Tang was seen moving gracefully and elegantly, and he was competing with Miao Yiyi's stand-in martial arts brothers.
Yuan Bing sat in front of the surveillance camera with a golden sword, and his mood at this time was completely different from the previous few days. There is no need to be too fussy when filming Li Tang's scenes. You can tell what effect you want to achieve before filming starts, and he will be able to perform it well for you. Especially for action scenes, as an action director, Yuan Bing even thought that there was no problem for Li Tang to do martial arts.
"Cut!"
"Substitute!"
Yuan Bing shouted stop with a loudspeaker, and Lavia's brother quickly put Miao Yiyi's stand-in down from the air, and then helped the real Miao Yiyi put on the wire.
The difficult action stunt double has already been completed for her. Now she only needs to perform a few simple movements with Li Tang and then take a few close-ups.
Although the movement was simple, Miao Yiyi was still very nervous. This girl was almost mentally scarred by Shao Bin's scolding some time ago. Although she was replaced by Li Tang, who was handsome and well-spoken, Miao Yiyi was still a little unsure and looked at Li Tang asking for help.
In fact, Li Tang also noticed that the girl was simply nervous, so he smiled at her and said: "It's okay, Yiyi, just treat it as a rehearsal. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. If you make a mistake, we will shoot it a few more times at most. If you feel bad about it, If so, just treat me to a meal later."
Hearing Li Tang's warm words, Miao Yiyi felt relieved. Yes, she was no longer facing the vicious Shao Bin. Even if she made a mistake, she would not be scolded. What was there to be afraid of? ?
Full of gratitude, she blurted out: "Brother Li, I will treat you to dinner tonight. You can order whatever you want!"
"Really? I heard that you often went out for dinner while I was away some time ago. Are you nearby?"
"Yes, we found a small restaurant near the film and television city. Their Taihu Sanbai is very good, and the snails and local chicken pot are also very good."
When it comes to eating, Miao Yiyi immediately talks about it with enthusiasm.
"Then we agreed, take me to try it tonight."
"No problem at all……"
The two were chatting enthusiastically when they heard Yuan Bing shout loudly: "Stop chatting, are you ready?"
Upon hearing this, Miao Yiyi playfully stuck out her tongue at Li Tang, quickly raised her hands and said, "Ready, director!"
"Okay, get ready to start shooting!"
"Action!"
Oddly enough, Miao Yiyi always struggled when acting with Shao Bin in the past, but today she was so smooth that even Yuan Bing was surprised.
"Cut..."
After calling stop, he carefully watched the playback again before shouting: "Okay, passed!"
"Choke to death!"
For the first time, Miao Yiyi didn't care that she was hung in the air by Wia, she raised her hands and shouted excitedly.
After all, actors are actually very fragile. The more pressure you put on her, the less confident she will be. If you don’t feel confident anymore, the effect will be obvious.
Before the filming started, Li Tang chatted with Miao Yiyi to relax her mood, and the effect was really obvious.
A discerning person at the scene will know the reason at a glance.
Today I specially came to the scene in person. Zhang Dabeard, who was sitting in front of the monitor, looked relaxed at this moment. He breathed a long sigh of relief and said to Yuan Bing next to him: "Li Tang is a pretty good guy. He is quite suitable for the role of Linghu Chong."
Yuan Bing also looked satisfied and said: "Of course! Teacher Zhang, if nothing else, there is absolutely no problem with this martial arts show."
…
A week has passed, and I have been filming Li Tang's scenes this week, mainly reshooting the scenes that Shao Bin had shot before.
They all say that you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, but you are afraid of comparing goods.
Shao Bin spent ten days filming these scenes, while Li Tang only spent a week. In addition, if you compare Shao Bin's previous films with Li Tang's current films, you will find that Linghu Chong played by Li Tang has a more cheerful, open-minded, bold and unrestrained personality than Shao Bin's version. The biggest difference is in the fighting scenes. Because Shao Bin used too many stand-ins and his own movements were stiff, the whole scene was far less freehand and exciting than Li Tang's fighting scenes.
This time, Lao Zhang was completely relieved and boldly discussed the salary issue with Nai An. Li Tang is now playing the male lead, so his salary will definitely increase. However, the crew still lost more than one million yuan because of Shao Bin's long-term efforts to change the role. In addition, it took ten days to reshoot. The two to three hundred dollars spent inside and outside were wasted, and the old man was really short of money. Fortunately, Nai'an is quite reasonable. The package price is 400,000 yuan, which works out to almost 12,000 yuan per episode. It is only a symbolic increase of 1,000 yuan from the original single episode price of 11,000 yuan. It is only a fraction of Shao Bin's original salary. Just a fraction.
The replacement actor for Lin Pingzhi was also in place at this time, but what Li Tang didn't expect was that this junior student of the Nortel Acting Department named Li Jie actually had a teacher-student relationship with Fan Xiaopang.
It turns out that Li Jie also studied at Xie Jin Hengtong Art School. After graduation, he stayed at the school and became a bodybuilding teacher. He taught the same class as Fan Xiaopang. A year later, Fan Xiaopang graduated, and the teacher and student applied for Nortel together. As a result, Li Jie passed the exam, but Fan Xiaopang failed.
Li Jie did well at Nortel. Last year, with the support of his class teacher Huang Lei, he starred in the role of Shen Congwen in "April on Earth" starring Huang Lei and Zhou Xun. The response was pretty good.
At this point, the acting is at least solid.
Facts have proved that Li Jie really worked very hard, because he received the script at the last minute and had no time to prepare or communicate with the opponent actors. Sooner or later he had to learn martial arts and practice swordsmanship. But despite this, he still insisted on putting on makeup every day after joining the set, and then stayed on the set to feel the atmosphere and look for feelings. Then when he was free, he picked up the script and recited the lines.
Especially for actors who join the cast midway, it is of course easy to fool things if you want to. But if you want to perform well and get into the zone, to be honest, sometimes it’s really difficult.
Take Li Tang for example. Even though he played Linghu Chong vividly during the crew reading, but many times he took on the identity of Linghu Chong and flirted with Xu Qing and Miao Yiyi, acting purely in his true character.
If you really want to play the character of Linghu Chong completely, you definitely can't just rely on your true character. The so-called performance means not only performing one's actions, but also performing one's spirit.
Fortunately, when he read the original work, he always had a feeling that the character Linghu Chong was very similar to Leonardo DiCaprio, whom he particularly liked in his previous life. To be precise, Linghu Chong and DiCaprio were once The characters he plays on the big screen are very similar to many classic characters.
For example, Linghu Chong's love for his junior sister is very similar to the stubborn Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby" who loves Daisy from beginning to end. Just like Gatsby, Linghu Chong is willing to do anything for his junior sister, even if his junior sister already loves someone else.
Another example is Linghu Chong's bohemian nature, cheerful and open-minded, bold and unrestrained, and informal. This was an extremely rare exception in ancient times with strict etiquette. This quality can be seen in Howard Hughes, played by DiCaprio in "The Aviator".
Linghu Chong's pursuit of peerless martial arts and practicing the Dugu Nine Swords on Siguo Cliff may be Howard Hughes's obsession with flying.
And his clever tricks, teasing people from all walks of life, are very similar to Frank William in "Cat and Mouse" who cheated everywhere and manipulated the federal agent played by Tom Hanks.
Li Tang even felt that Linghu Chong was actually a collection of these classic characters played by Xiao Lizi. In this way, it will be much easier. If you are affectionate, learn from Gatsby; if you are a gamer, learn from Frank William; if you are stubborn and focused, learn from Howard Hughes.
Having found the core of the character, that is, the spirit of the character, driven by the spirit, the effect is obvious. Linghu Chong's shooting process was very fast.
It is really unimaginable that the Linghu Chong he plays is actually a Linghu Chong who combines Chinese and Western styles.
…
Early that morning, Li Tang went for his usual three-kilometer morning jog, plus a set of Spirit Rushing Sword Techniques. Dugu Nine Swords could not be practiced because this set of sword techniques required the help of Wia.
After returning to the room and taking a shower, I feel refreshed and full of energy for another day.
"Sister Xu Qing, good morning!"
When he came to the dressing room, Xu Qing was already sitting there doing makeup early. The most troublesome thing for an actress to act in a costume drama is makeup. From applying makeup on her face to doing her hair and then changing her clothes, it takes at least an hour or two to do the whole thing. If there is an early scene, Xu Qing will have to get up before dawn to put on makeup.
Today happens to be the morning scene for the two of them.
"Morning...ha-yawn!"
Xu Qing had been dozing off, but as soon as she opened her mouth and replied "Morning", she couldn't help but yawned widely.
During this period, because Li Tang's filming progress has accelerated, the filming progress of her scenes has also accelerated a lot. Who said they have many scenes opposite each other.
"It's so annoying, I can't get off it!"
Maybe it was due to the pressure of filming during this period, or maybe it was the lack of sleep that caused her to get angry. Xu Qing, who was over 30 years old, actually had a few pimples on her forehead, one of which was quite big and bright red. People get goosebumps.
At this time, the makeup artist was applying concealer to cover up. Although the color was covered, the bulge could not be covered up and was quite obvious.
When Li Tang saw this, he couldn't help but joked: "Sister Xu Qing, your yin and yang are not harmonious. It's time to ask your brother-in-law to visit the class."
However, Xu Qing, who usually likes to talk and laugh, did not respond enthusiastically this time. She just sat there dejectedly and said with a hint of sneer and self-deprecation: "I don't know what I am busy with all day long. I can't even think about it." Don’t even think about it.”
Hey, is there a relationship problem between a beautiful celebrity and her rich boyfriend?
Second update!
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